Stoichiometry dependent phase transition in Mn-Co-Ga-based thin films: From cubic in-plane, soft magnetized to tetragonal perpendicular, hard magnetized

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 24, 2012, Pages

  Ouardi, Siham ^a   Kubota, Takahide ^b   Fecher, Gerhard H ^a   Stinshoff, Rolf ^a   Mizukami, Shigemi ^b   Miyazaki, Terunobu ^b   Ikenaga, Eiji ^c   Felser, Claudia ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL PHYSICS OF SOLIDS   (Germany)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; CO CONTENT; COMPOSITION DEPENDENCE; CUBIC STRUCTURE; EPITAXIAL THIN FILMS; HARD X-RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; HIGH MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETRON CO-SPUTTERING; MGO; TETRAGONAL DISTORTION; UNIAXIAL MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; VALENCE BAND SPECTRA; VAN HOVE SINGULARITIES;

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; EPITAXIAL FILMS; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; GALLIUM; JAHN-TELLER EFFECT; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MANGANESE; PHOTOELECTRONS; SATURATION MAGNETIZATION; STOICHIOMETRY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

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EID: 84871296435     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4770303     Document Type: Article

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